System and method of providing off-network access to network content

Abstract

A system and method of creating a data file of network content is provided. The method includes downloading a plurality of HTML webpages from a network, at least one of the webpages including text content and non-text content; converting the plurality of HTML web-pages into unformatted text-only content; and compressing the unformatted text-only content; archiving the compressed unformatted text-only content; wherein a desired webpage of the plurality of webpages can be obtained from the archive via decompression to provide a text-only version of the desired webpage.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of creating a data file of network content, comprising:
 downloading a plurality of HTML webpages from a network, at least one of the webpages including text content and non-text content;   converting the plurality of HTML web-pages into unformatted text-only content;   compressing the unformatted text-only content; and   archiving the compressed unformatted text-only content;   wherein a desired webpage of the plurality of webpages can be obtained from the archive via decompression to provide a text-only version of the desired webpage.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 comparing, for a downloaded page, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric that exceed the threshold are subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 comparing, for a downloaded page, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric below the threshold are not subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 comparing, for a downloaded page, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric that exceed the threshold are subject to the archiving step;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric below the threshold are not subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the archive can be accessed without access to the network. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving a request for a desired web page;   locating the version of the desired web page in the archive; and   decompressing the located version of the desired web page;   wherein the decompression provides a text-only version of the desired webpage.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein repeated execution of the method produces a plurality of archives, the method further comprising:
 receiving from a requestor a request for a desired web page; and   determining a most current version of the desired web page in the plurality of archives; and   providing the most current version of the desired web page to the requestor.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising disconnecting the archive from the network. 
     
     
         9 . A method of creating a data file of network content, comprising:
 identifying a plurality of webpages from a network, at least one of the webpages including text content and non-text content;   converting the plurality of web-pages into text-only content;   compressing the text-only content; and   archiving the compressed text-only content;   wherein a desired webpage of the plurality of webpages can be obtained from the archive via decompression to provide a text-only version of the desired webpage.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 comparing, for an identified webpage, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein identified pages that have a metric that exceed the threshold are subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 comparing, for an identified page, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric below the threshold are not subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 comparing, for a downloaded page, a metric representing a usefulness of the download page against a threshold;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric that exceed the threshold are subject to the archiving step;   wherein downloaded pages that have a metric below the threshold are not subject to the archiving step.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the archive can be accessed without access to the network. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 receiving a request for a desired web page;   locating the version of the desired web page in the archive; and   decompressing the located version of the desired web page;   wherein the decompression provides a text-only version of the desired webpage.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 9 :
 wherein repeated execution of the method produces a plurality of archives,   the method further comprising:
 receiving from a requestor a request for a desired web page; and 
 determining a most current version of the desired web page in the plurality of archives; and 
 providing the most current version of the desired web page to the requestor. 
   
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising disconnecting the archive from the network. 
     
     
         17 . A method of creating a data file of network content, comprising:
 identifying a plurality of webpages from a network, at least one of the webpages including text content and non-text content;   determining which of the plurality of webpages are to be archived;   for those of the plurality of webpages to be archived, the method further comprises:
 converting the webpages into text-only content; 
 compressing the text-only content; and 
 archiving the compressed text-only content; 
 wherein a desired webpage of the plurality of webpages can be obtained from the archive via decompression to provide a text-only version of the desired webpage. 
   for those of the plurality of webpages to be archived, at least the step of archiving is not performed.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the determining comprises, for an identified webpage, comparing a metric representing a usefulness of the webpage against a threshold; 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the archive can be accessed without access to the network. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17 , further comprising:
 receiving a request for a desired web page;   locating the version of the desired web page in the archive; and   decompressing the located version of the desired web page;   wherein the decompression provides a text-only version of the desired webpage.   
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 17 :
 wherein repeated execution of the method produces a plurality of archives,   the method further comprising:
 receiving from a requestor a request for a desired web page; and 
 determining a most current version of the desired web page in the plurality of archives; and 
 providing the most current version of the desired web page to the requestor. 
   
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 17  further comprising disconnecting the archive from the network.